The Award Tally
FictionNonfiction

Wishlist

Saved in this browser only - it isn't synced to your other devices.

Back to the full ranking
Young Men and Fire cover

Young Men and Fire

Norman Maclean

1

award won

12

score

#688 of 3,809 books · #255 in History

Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1992).

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy. Young Men and Fire won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992.

Buy this book at AmazonAd
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226501031
Genre
History
Topics
Wildland firefightingMann Gulch fire tragedySmokejumpers

Other awarded books from Norman Maclean

Norman Maclean has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.

If you liked Young Men and Fire, you could also like these